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Chief AI Officer

Mindpearl

Chief AI Officer (fractional)

AI FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FORUM

Senior Fellow

ADAPT

AI & Data Advisor

Auscontact Association

Non Executive Director

Serco

Director, Innovation & Growth

Homeward Bound Properties

I have leveraged my ongoing love/fascination with the property industry to create a business that flips homes. Strategically buying, planning the level of renovation, organising and contracting trades and then placing the product in the market.

Managing Director

Trentham and Districts Community Bank

Green Distillation Technologies P/L

GDT is a world-first approach to reclaiming end of life tyres.  As a shareholder in his green-tech startup, I helped out for a few months with attracting investment and opening up international markets.

GM, Corporate Development

Expedia Group

After 18 months in my prior role (and based upon success with non voice for the Hotels.com brand). I was asked to step into a global role managing all new non-voice customer channels which covers Social (Facebook, Twitter, etc), Chatapps (Messenger, Line, Wechat, etc) and webchat. This role encompassed all of the Expedia brands across the globe.

The first step of the role was to conduct a full analysis of our current capability and then create a unified global strategy of where we wanted to go and how we would get there. This strategy was then ratified and a significant business case developed and approved. 2019 is the year of execution for this strategy.

Director, Non Voice Channels

I am a customer experience futurologist and thought leader who works with Company Boards and C-Suite Executives on innovation in their customer experience.

In June 2023 I authored "The AI Empowered Customer Experience" available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0C9SBNW3N).

I am a divergent thinker who creates unique ideas in innovation.

Domestic is not sovereign, nor is it necessarily safe.

Over the last few weeks debate has intensified about what sovereign means. Many believe that so long as the servers are located in an Australian based data centre that this is sovereign and safe, yet nothing could be further from the truth.

Lets examine just one piece of regulation - The US CLOUD Act.  Rarely talked about, especially by the hyper-scalers trying to convince us they can build a super secret and safe private cloud here in Aust.

Under this Act (which Australia has signed on to) the US Govt, at its absolute discretion, can compel any US based company to reveal the content of its servers - even if those servers are not on shore.  Yes, even the content of servers in Australia.

This means that although you may have a 'secure' Azure instance ... the US Govt can just take a peak in there whenever it suits them.  Sure, you can encrypt your data but how many organisations have done that, and what level of encryption is needed?

So I wonder what magic Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and so many others will try to pull to defend this ....

Simon Kriss

🎙 AI in 5 .. 🎙

C-suite execs and Boards are still making the same mistakes with AI.

In this episode I chat with Simon Tyrrell. Simon is the Chief Strategy Officer at Humaie, and we talk about the 3 big mistakes that Executives and Directors are still making about AI adoption in 2025.

It's a good list and worth the 5 minute listen. Plus it is double Simons - what could be better than that?

Can't wait to get new episodes here? You can now find us on Spotify and YouTube by searching for 'AI in 5 minicast'....

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